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it had increased to " violent gusts" from NEbN.,* the barometer being 

 at 29 68, the strength of the wind being as 7. ; and that at 2 p. m. there 

 were " most violent gusts," the strength of the wind being 9., and the 

 barometer still between 29*68 and 29*66, at which it stood at 6 a.m. 

 It might no doubt have been found lower in this interval if observed, 

 and it was at half- past two that the centre was passing over Baticolo. 



Centre of the 2nd December. — We have now to follow the storm and 

 assign a place for the centre on the 2nd December, bearing in mind that 

 from Baticolo to Tuticoreen Roads is, in a straight line, 222 miles, with 

 the high land of Ceylon between them. The centre passed Baticolo 

 on the 2nd, at 2^ a. m., and the Florist seems to have been wrecked in 

 Tuticoreen Roads only about ten, or at most twelve hours later, that is 

 in the night between the 2nd and 3rd. Hence this could scarcely be the 

 same storm which had passed Baticolo, for if so, it must have, all at once, 

 travelled at the rate of nearly eighteen miles an hour ; and this notwith- 

 standing the obstacles which the chain of Ceylon mountains must have 

 presented. I am inclined then rather to suppose that this storm, which 

 at or about midnight, 2nd and 3rd, was SE. at Tuticoreen ; Westerly 

 with the Faize Rubahny, between Cadiapatam Point and Cape Comorin ; 

 NW. with the Charles Forbes; a gale at Trevandrum, Quilon, Alleppy, 

 Tinnevelly, and Ootacamund (no direction of the wind is given in the 

 notes from these places) ; a " very violent gale" at East and SE. at 

 Palamcottah ; a " violent gale" at NE. on the morning of the 3rd at 

 Cochin ; and NE. and East, veering to SE. and SSW. at Cananore, at 

 8 a. m. to 1 p. m. on the 3rd. I am inclined to think then, that this 

 storm was a new one, generated very possibly by the atmospheric dis- 

 turbance to the East of Ceylon. The circle which I have marked on 

 the chart then between Palamcotta and the Faize Rubahny, may be 

 supposed to be the average position of the centre of a new storm, at 

 midnight between the 2nd and 3rd, as far as any place can be assigned 

 to it with uncertain data, and in a mountainous country. f 



By noon of the 3rd, we find the Charles Forbes with the wind, which 

 had rapidly veered with her since midnight, S. Westerly with nearly 

 fine weather. At Cochin at noon it was Southerly and S. Westerly, and 



* Advancing to the North beyond Baticolo, the high land trends farther inland to 

 the West, so that the coast being lower, less interruption was given to the vortex, 

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